Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Aug 30 2017 - 17:23:21 EST


On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:10:09 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> kernel-doc parsing uses as ASCII codec, so let people know that
> kernel-doc comments should be in ASCII characters only.
>
> WARNING: kernel-doc '../scripts/kernel-doc -rst -enable-lineno ../drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h' processing failed with: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368: ordinal not in range(128)

So I don't get this error. What kind of system are you running the docs
build on? I would really rather that the docs system could handle modern
text if possible, so it would be better to figure out what's going on
here...

Thanks,

jon